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Writing Quotes by Mavis Gallant
- I still do not know what impels anyone sound of mind to leave dry land and spend a lifetime describing people who do not exist.…
- Writing is like a love affair: the beginning is the best part.
- I believed that if I was to call myself a writer, I should live on writing. If I could not live on it, even simply,…
- I write every day as a matter of course It is not a burden. It is the way I live.
- I wanted to live in Paris and write nothing but fiction and be perfectly free. I had decided all this had to be settled by…
- A writer's life stands in relation to his work as a house does to a garden, related but distinct.
- I began to ration my writing, for fear I would dream through life as my father had done. I was afraid I had inherited a…
More Writing Quotes
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing. — Paul Auster
- I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn't until I was… — Paul Auster
- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
- When we were making the law, when we were writing the literature and the mathematics the grandfarthers of Blair and little Bush… — Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
- A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit. — Richard Bach
- In every song I write, whether it's a love song or a political song or a song about family, the one thing… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know. — Andrea Arnold
- Writing comes more easily if you have something to say. — Sholem Asch
- Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core… — Isaac Asimov
- If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster. — Isaac Asimov
- Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not. — Isaac Asimov